Exploring our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself.

12pm Low Rent | Dir. Cloudberry MacLean | 1hr 15mins | Scotland | 2024

Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies. With a unique score created by Jer Reid drawing from live improvisation by Jer Reid (guitar) & Una MacGlone (double bass).

Content note: references to colonialism and chattel slavery.

2pm - Workshop Land back now! ...but how?

Many of us know the current set up isn't fair with 432 owners holding 50% of Scottish land and an area half the size of Wales given over to private bloodsports, in the form of grouse moors.

This workshop encourages us to explore our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself. It aims to be a place of learning that is equally as fruitful for those of us who are new to land reclamation and people who have given land struggles plenty of thought.

It will:

•⁠ ⁠Share strands of relevant history as well as concrete examples of successful land reclamation.

•⁠ ⁠⁠Aspire to integrate a focus on our current situation in Scotland with a commitment to decolonisation* and reparations from the global north to the global south.

*A process of acknowledging and actively striving to undo the suffering and damage caused by past and current processes of colonisation.

7:30pm - Lainey Dempsey, Harry Gorski-Brown, Claquer (Lisa Fannen & Jer Reid)

Claquer is Jer Reid and Lisa Fannen who experiment with poetry, fragile melodies, noise guitar, synths, drones, beats, bells, loops and layers. They are interested in exploring where poetry, sound, performance and ritual can meet. "Brilliant: crystal clear language, both in voice and music, politically involved and humanly resonant. Touched." In this performance they are excited to be joined by Rose Dagul (cello).

Harry Gorski-Brown is a musician and audio-visual artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Originally from Stirling, he studied violin performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a large focus on performing contemporary classical music - especially the music of his peers, alongside composing himself with a particular focus on electroacoustic music. Having grown up learning to speak and sing in Gaelic alongside playing traditional music on bagpipes and fiddle, he creates music and art stemming from these forms, whilst informing his approach by use of contemporary performance techniques. Since graduating in 2019, he has worked as a performer and composer for various projects with other creatives from around Scotland. Currently he performs regularly with and for Shetland saxophonist Norman Willmore and Scots singer Quinie, playing small pipes and fiddle. His own duos include, Josiah & Ludwig, which began in 2016 with guitarist Andrew Herrington - creating original music based on traditional and folk forms and tales. They were BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominees in 2018 and have been creating a long-form album which is due to be realised in the coming year. Noise Pocket is an experimental pop duo he formed with wordsmith Patrick Shand, which Harry currently produces music and videos for, alongside their live audio-visual show. Beyond his work with other creatives, Harry creates his own work which utilises electroacoustic and audio-visual techniques combined with whatever interests him at the time. Recent notable shows of work include a solo performance at Sonica of his film, I.Been a badboy:- cut me loose_ , a performance at nonclassical’s Battle of of the Bands under his pseudonym FRIENDLY BOOTS, and with Quinie at Counterflows and An Tobar on the Isle of Mull.

Lainey Dempsey

Influenced by Scotland and Ireland’s traditional song bearers, Lainey writes and sings about rebels, underdogs, the supernatural and the broken hearted. Her unaccompanied voice creates an intimacy and a human connection that invites audiences to travel with her into the stories of the songs she sings

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